So I was driving to school yesterday or perhaps the day before listening to the radio.  A news break came on from the local talk radio show I was listening to.  They had started talking about the Palestinian Parliamentary elections, and how the Fatah party (the one that's been in power) would likely defeat the Hamas party (Hamas being the terrorist organization whose mission is to annihilate Israel and all Jews).  I tend to get concerned and upset about terrorist activity in the Middle East, but Hamas was expected to lose... so I was put at ease.  But later, late lastnight and this morning I find out that no, Hamas has won the damn Palestinian election.  Something like the total opposite of what they were expected to lose (at least I think that's what it was).  But whatever...  just think about this now.  The Israeli government already didn't get along with the Fatah controlled Palestinian government... but at least the Fatahs pretended they wanted peace.  But now... we see elected democratically an organization/party that was created for the very purpose of exterminating Israel!  {Shoot, the word "hamas" (at least in Hebrew) means something like "wanton violence" and Hebrew and Arabic are very similar languages... lots of cognates.  Can you imagine what it would be like if we had the Democratic Party and the Republican Party and the Violence Party?}  (oh, bythway, when the Hamas supporters stormed the Parliament building, the Fatah loyalists and they [Hamas supporters] started throwing rocks at eachother, etc.]

So what's this mean for Israel and us?  Who knows?  Perhaps (and very likely) even greater violence will ensue from the Palestinians... I mean what reason have we to believe otherwise?  But Israel is no pushover... by no means!  If Hamas opposes Israel so openly from this position of power, we may see the open war that has been brewing for so long.  Could this be the chance that Iran has been looking for to attack Israel?  Could this be the beginnings of another world war?  Certainly the United States won't let Israel be attacked by Iran unaided.  And when we start involving Iran; China and Russia will almost certainly join in.  From there who can say?  I don't like to be a fear-monger... and I don't like to talk about wars that haven't happened yet... shoot, I don't like making predictions at all!  But there is nothing good about Hamas being elected...